Letitia Harris is the daughter of famous Syracuse artist Falstaff Harris.  Here she is interviewed in her home by Nancy Keefe Rhodes and Joan Bryant.

My sister and I used to sit and try to, you know, remember.  She remembers more because she’s older but I remember faces.  Cab Calloway was always over.  Cab Calloway was from D.C. too.  Who else was there.  Paul Robeson was there more than once.

I remember his voice. Because I used to sit an listen to, you know, his chest.  I loved that with men, when I was a kid, to put my head and hear that vibrato.  Du Bois was here, was there in the house.  I keep saying “here.”  You know, there was a Du Bois that lived here.   I don’t know, she’s got to be dead cause she, if I’m 78.  She was a relative of W.E.B. Du Bois.  She used to live over across the street from, did somebody tell you that, from Dunbar Center?

No, no one told me that!

From the Dunbar Center on…

Townsend?

Townsend.